Conference Program
AGU Hydrology Days 2017

March 20 - March 22, 2017
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Program at a Glance
9 am
Registration
9 am
Registration
8 am
Registration
8 am
Hydraulics
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
Mid-morning break
10 am
Global Water - BMPs - Irrigation - Water Quality
10 am
Eco-Hydrology
10 am
Ground Water - Contaminants - Remediation
12 - 2 pm

Lunch
Borland Lecture in Hydrology
12 - 2 pm
Lunch
Hydrology Days Award Lecture
12 - 2 pm
Lunch
Borland Lecture in Hydraulics
2 pm
Water Management
2 pm
River Morphodynamics
2 pm
River Mechanics
         
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
Mid-afternoon break
4 pm
Soil Moisture - Climate - Hydrology
4 pm
Poster Session
4 pm
Erosion and Sedimentation
         
Adjourn
Adjourn
World Water Day Celebration
Hydrology Days Ends
   
Hydrology Days 2017
Program
 
Monday
Date Time Session
March 20 9:00 am Registration - Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 20 10:00 am Global Water - Irrigation - BMPs - Water Quality
   

Co-Chairs: Professor Timothy K. Gates and Professor Ryan T Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  10:00 Brominated THMs: Bromide Source Identification, Characterization and Geochemical Fingerprinting
    Alicia Shogbon, Kenneth Carlson and Randy Bassett
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:15 Aerodynamic methods for estimating turbulent fluxes over irrigated crops
    Mahmoud Osman, Jose Chavez, Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 10:30 Incorporating Perceptions of Use and Risk in a Mixed-Methods Assessment of Change along the Urban/Rural Fringe of Cuzco, Peru: Applications for Sustainable Watershed Management
    Alicia Tyson
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
  10:45 Sustainable Transfer of Innovative Drinking Water Technology to Sub-Saharan Africa
    Jessica L. Baker and Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 11:00 Measuring Psychological Impacts of Collaborative Modeling in African Mountain Systems
    Cara Steger
Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
     
  11:15 Stochastic Estimation of Nonpoint-Source Return Flows and Pollutant Mass Loading to Two Reaches of the Arkansas River in Colorado
    John T. Cox and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:30 Evaluating Best Land and Water Management Practices to Improve Water Quality Using a Coupled Stream-Aquifer Reactive Transport Model
    Christopher D. Shultz, Timothy K. Gates, and Ryan T. Bailey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:45 Barriers to Sprinkler Irrigation Adoption in Colorado’s Lower Arkansas River Valley: Facts, Fiction, and Water Quality Impacts
    Tony Orlando, Dana Hoag and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
     
 
March 20 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydrology - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
    Soil Moisture Remote Sensing: Status and Outlook

Thomas J. Jackson
Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD
     
   
March 20 2:00 pm Water Management
   

Chair: Professor Neil S. Grigg
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Urban water supply vulnerability: sealing the failure paths
    Neil S. Grigg
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:15 State Politics, Water Supply, and Systems Engineering
    Edward M. Weaver
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 2:30 Hydroeconomic modeling framework for assessing vulnerability to water demands in arid regions
    André Dozier, Mazdak Arabi, Chris Goemans, Benjamin Wostoupal, Yao Zhang, and Keith Paustian
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 The Importance of accounting for well capacity in hydro-economic modeling
    R. Aaron Hrozencik, Dale Manning, Jordan Suter, Chris Goemans and Ryan Bailey
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
     
  3:00 Application of Stochastic Dynamic Programming and HEC-ResSIM for Development of Forecast-based Operational Rules for Lake Mendocino in the Russian River Basin, California
    Matthew E. Peacock, John W. Labadie, Lynn. E. Johnson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:15 Smart Water Grid application to Geumsan City, South Korea
    Seongjoon Byeon, Pierre Y. Julien and Hwa Young Ki
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:30 Fine-Tuning Artificial Neural Network Parameters for Modeling Basin-wide Stream-Aquifer Interactions
    Faizal Rohmat, John W. Labadie, and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 20 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 20 4:00 pm Climate - Hydrology - Soil Moisture
   

Chair: Professor Jeffrey D. Niemann
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  4:00 A Review of the 2016 Water Year in Colorado
    Nolan Doesken, Rebecca Bolinger and Peter Goble
Colorado Climate Center, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
     
  4:15 South Korean Precipitation Variability in association with Large Scale Climate Patterns
    Jai Hong Lee, Pierre Y. Julien, and Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 Surface Flux Trends and Patterns in Western United States
    Jeremy Giovando and Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Field-scale estimation of precipitation by cosmic rays
    Robert H. Erskine, Timothy R. Green, Trenton E. Franz, and Darin Desilets
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:00 An Evaluation of Downscaling Soil Moisture without Local Calibration
    Nicholas R. Grieco, Jeffrey D. Niemann, Timothy R. Green, and Andrew S. Jones
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:15 Incorporating Channel Network Type in a Nonlinear Synthetic Unit Hydrograph Method
    Kelsey A. Czyzyk, Sediqa Hassani, Jeffrey D. Niemann, and Jorge Gironás
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 20 5:30 pm Adjourn
     
 
Tuesday
Date Time Session
March 21 9:00 am Registration - Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 21 10:00 am Eco-Hydrology
   

Chair: Professor Ryan Morrison
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  10:00 Variation in Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Responses to Predation and Temperature: Mechanisms of Trophic Interactions
    Scott G. Morton and N. LeRoy Poff
Department of Biology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 10:15 Influence of experimental, environmental, and geographic factors on nutrient limitation patterns in freshwater streams
    Whitney S. Beck, Amanda T. Rugenski, and N. LeRoy Poff
Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 10:30 Soil and waterborne amoeba can act as environmental reservoirs of pathogenic bacteria under certain precipitation regimes
    David Markman, Michael Antolin, Richard Bowen, William Wheat, Michael Woods, and Mary Jackson
Department of Biology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 10:45 Climate effects on high elevation lakes: the influence of lake specific parameters
    Kyle Christianson, Brett Johnson and Douglas Silver
Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 11:00 Uptake and Transformation of Nitrate in Agricultural Tailwater Wetlands, Weld County, Colorado
    Erick A Carlson
Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, GDPE, I-WATER
     
I-WATER 11:15 Location and Intensity of Changes to Ecosystem Services of Irrigated Agriculture: A case study in Weld County, Colorado
    Erick A Carlson
Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, GDPE, I-WATER
     
  11:30 A Novel Regional Approach for Estimating Ecological Streamflow Regimes in Ungaged Basins Combining Hydrological and Statistical Modeling
    Stephen K. Adams and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
   
March 21 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Hydrology Days Award Lecture - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
    Climate and humans as amplifiers of hydro-ecologic change: science and policy implications for intensively managed landscapes

Professor Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine
     
   
March 21 2:00 pm River Morphodynamics
   

Chair: Professor Peter A Nelson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Bedload sheet characteristics under steady versus unsteady flow
    Aaron Schoelkopf, Jacob A. Morgan, and Peter A. Nelson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:15 Morphological changes in the middle Elwha River, Washington following dam removal
    Jacob A. Morgan, Peter A. Nelson, and Daniel J. Brogan
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:30 Numerical simulation of alluviation in bedrock channels
    Jongseok Cho and Peter A. Nelson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 Alternate bar dynamics in response to increases and decreases of sediment supply
    Andrew R. Bankert and Peter A. Nelson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:00 How disturbing: The complications of sequential fire and floods in mountain catchments
    Daniel J. Brogan, Peter A. Nelson, Lee H. MacDonald and Jacob A. Morgan
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3:15 Stratigraphic Feedbacks on Alternate Bar Morphology
    Ryan A. Brown and Peter A. Nelson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 3:30 Modifying Bagnold’s bedload transport equation for use in watershed-scale channel incision models
    Roderick W. Lammers and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 21 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 21 4:00 pm Poster Session
   

Chair: Professor Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1 Mountain meadow source-sink dynamics: Disentangling legacy land-use effects on water and fluvial carbon storage relationships
    Tristan Weiss, Tim Covino, Ellen Wohl, and Deanna Laurel
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
  2 New Water Right Accounting Procedure
    Weimin Li
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  3 Braided-Channel Network Influence on Bed Sediment Transport: A Laboratory Flume Study
    Dylan L. Armstrong and Robert Ettema
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4 Reducing emerging contaminants in ground and surface waters: Optimizing contaminant removal in animal waste prior to land application
    Victoria Larson and Susan K De Long
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5 Hydrologic Characterization of the Fountain Formation: Prospective Aquifer Storage and Recovery Targets
    Daniel F. Collazo
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  6 Ground-based multispectral remote sensing to estimate actual crop coefficients for alfalfa and grass pastures in the western slope Colorado
    Sumit Gautam, Perry Cabot, and José L. Chávez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  7 Assessing Biological and Physical Controls on Persistent Nutrient Losses in Severely-Burned Watersheds
    Allison E. Rhea, Timothy Covino, Charles Rhoades, and Timothy Fegel
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
  8 Assessing Conservation Effects of Agricultural Management Practices in Irrigated River Basins
    Olivia Jobin, Ali Tasdighi, and Mazdak Arabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9 Gravel transport rates in Rocky Mountain streams for normal annual highflow events
    Kristin Bunte, Kurt W. Swingle, Rob Ettema, Steven R. Abt and Dan A. Cenderelli
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10 Two 1970's methods for prescribing instream flow regimens
    Robert T Milhous
Hydrologist, Fort Collins, Colorado
     
  11 Monte Carlo simulation for Diyala River basin in Iraq utilizing VIC model
    Saddam Q. Waheed and Jorge A. Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 21 6:00 pm Adjourn
     
 
Wednesday
Date Time Session
March 22 8:00 am Registration - Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
   
March 22 8:00 am Hydraulics
   

Chair: Professor Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  8:00 Use of the Manning Equation for Estimating the Discharge of High-Gradient Canals and Natural Streams
    Henintsoa Rakotoarisaona, Ashley A. Ostraff, Nicholas Udy, Janelle Gherasim, Allison Stallings, Jeremy Saldivar, Kenneth Larsen, Sarah Allen, Morgan Abbott, and Steven H. Emerman
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
     
  8:15 A Conceptual Framework for the Use of Machine Learning for the Synthesis of Stream Discharge – Gage Height Rating Curves
    Sarah M. Allen, Steven H. Emerman, Thomas H. Murdock, and Skyler K. Tulley
Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
     
  8:30 Flood Wave Propagation Caused by a Tailing Dam Failure Fundão Dam Case, Brazil
    Marcos C. Palu and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  8:45 Uncertainty analysis of flow velocity measurements using LDA and ADV in laboratory experiments
    Alex Carpenter, Amrapalli Garanaik, Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy and Timothy K. Gates
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:00 Assessment of small scale anisotropy in stably stratified turbulent flows
    Amrapalli Garanaik and Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:15 On the propagation of gravity currents past a submerged array of cylinders
    Jian Zhou, Claudia Cenedese, Tim Williams, Megan Ball, Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy, and Roger Nokes
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  9:30 Influence of inlet/outlet location on hydraulic disinfection efficiency of contact tanks
    Yishu Zhang and Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
March 22 9:45 am Mid-morning break
     
   
March 22 10:00 am Groundwater - Contaminants - Remediation
   

Chair: Professor Professor Thomas C Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  10:00 The use of Oleophilic Bio-Barriers to prevent sheens at hydrocarbon contaminated sites
    Laura Tochko and Thomas Sale
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:15 Storm-event groundwater recharge in a green infrastructure watershed
    Aditi S. Bhaskar
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:30 Assessment of Water Quality and Genotoxicity Downstream of NPDES Oil and Gas Produced Water Discharges
    Molly McLaughlin, Jens Blotevogel, J. Lucas Argueso and Thomas Borch
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  10:45 Assessment of using mine tailings and waste rock in waster balance covers
    Mohammad R. Gorakhki and Christopher A. Bareither
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:00 Hydraulic conductivity of geosynthetic clay liners in mining applications
    Joel Conzelmann and Joseph Scalia
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  11:15 A new inverse method for the simultaneous estimation of aquifer thickness and boundary conditions based on borehole and hydrodynamic measurements
    Fangyu Gao and Ye Zhang
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming
     
  11:30 Reactor design for electrolytic treatment of the persistent organic pollutant 1,4-dioxane in groundwater
    P. Maxine Cottrell, Tom C. Sale, and Jens Blotevogel
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
 
March 22 12:00 pm Lunch - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
     
  1:00 pm Borland Lecture in Hydraulics - North Ballroom - Lory Student Center
    Intraseasonal Disturbances and their Role in Air-Sea Interactions in Equatorial Regions

Professor H. J. S. Fernando
Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
     
   
March 22 2:00 pm River Mechanics
   

Chair: Professor Robert Ettema
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Dynamics of flows in river bends
    Aseperi Oladapo and S. Karan Venayagamoorthy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  2:15 Where is instream wood most geomorphically effective? Investigating trends in wood-induced sediment and POM storage at the headwaters of North Saint Vrain Creek, CO
    Andrew Pfeiffer and Ellen Wohl
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  2:30 Monitoring the effects of river realignment on the Upper Colorado River, Rocky Mountain National Park
    Matthew Sparacino and Sara Rathburn
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  2:45 Utilizing changes in vegetation to identify ice effects on the banks of the Middle Reach of the Susitna River, Alaska
    Renee Vandermause and Robert Ettema
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 3:00 Do investments in wildfire risk reduction lead to positive financial returns? A return on investment analysis of a payment for ecosystem services program in Colorado
    Codie Wilson, Kelly W Jones, Jeffery B Cannon, Freddy A Saavedra, Stephanie K Kampf, Brett Wolk, Rob Addington, Antony S Cheng, Benjamin Gannon, Yu Wei, Lee MacDonald
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER 3:15 Post-fire precipitation thresholds and treatment efficacy from plot to watershed-scale
    Codie Wilson, Stephanie K Kampf and Joseph Wagenbrenner
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
  3:30 Evaluation of fish passage at whitewater parks using 2D and 3D hydraulic modeling
    Travis L. Hardee, Peter A. Nelson, Matt C. Kondratieff, and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
     
March 22 3:45 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 22 4:00 pm Erosion - Sedimentation
   

Chair: Professor Pierre Y Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

Grey Rock Room 290 - Lory Student Center
     
  4:00 Developing a Sediment Budget for the Upper Elk River Watershed, Northwestern California: Do Natural or Anthropogenic Sources Dominate?
    Lee H. MacDonald; Michael W. Miles, Shane Beach, and Nick Harrison; Matthew R. House; Patrick Belmont; and Ken L. Ferrier
Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University
     
  4:15 Estimating the Total Sediment Load using MEP and SEMEP
    Chun-Yao Yang and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:30 Multiple regressions analysis and model for sediment yield in South Korea
    Woochul Kang and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  4:45 Testing hydraulic efficiency of pressure difference samplers while varying mesh size and type
    Kristin Bunte, Matthew Klema, Taylor Hogan, Christopher Thornton
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:00 Sediment Transport and Effects of Restoration Flows and Subsidence on Predicted Levee Capacities
    Susan Cundiff, Chad Morris and Stuart Trabant
Tetra Tech Inc., Fort Collins, CO
     
  5:15 Estimation of Specific Degradation of Watersheds using Rainfall Erosivity
    Joonhak Lee and Pierre Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
  5:30 Mud Flow Diversion Management in The Porong River, Indonesia
    Neil Andika and Pierre Y. Julien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
   
March 22 5:30 pm Reception and Refreshments
Lory Student Center Theater
     
  6:15 pm Dr. Norm Evans Endowed Lecture Series and World Water Day Celebration 2017
   

2017 Distinguished Guest Speaker: Eleanor Allen, CEO Water For People

“Keeping Water Flowing For Generations to Come”

Lory Student Center Theater
     
   
March 22 2:00 pm Confucius Institute Session I: Challenges
   

Chair: Professor Steven R. Fassnacht
Department of EcoSystem Science and Sustainability, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  2:00 Welcome and Symposium Introduction
    Ashley Stokes
Assistant Vice President for the Office of Engagement at Colorado State University
     
  2:15 Introduction of Topics I: Challenges
    Steven R. Fassnacht
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
  2:20 Local state corporatism and Water Governance: How Tax Farming Contributed to Desertification in NW China
    KuoRay Mao
Department of Sociology, Colorado State University
     
  2:35 Does remote sensing can improve the robust of monitoring evapotranspiration and precipitation
    Zhongjing Wang
School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
     
  2:55 Fine Resolution Hydrological Variability to Estimate Uncertainty
    Steven R. Fassnacht, Anna K.D. Pfohl and Juan Ignacio López-Moreno
EASC-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  3:10 Monitoring on the global lakes using multi-resource data
    Mingguo Ma
School of Geographical Sciences, South West University, Chongqing, China
     
     
March 22 3:30 pm Mid-afternoon break
     
   
March 22 3:45 pm Confucius Institute Session II: Opportunities
   

Chair: Professor Melinda Laituri
Department of EcoSystem Science and Sustainability, CSU

Cherokee Park Room - Lory Student Center
     
  3:45 Introduction of Topics II: Opportunities
    Melinda J. Laituri
Dept of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
  4:00 Using Numerical Models to Test Hypotheses by Filtering out Model Pa-rameter Uncertainties
    Guo-Yue Niu and Ahmed S. Elshall, Ming Ye, and Greg A. Barron-Gafford
Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Arizona
     
  4:20 The Spatial Distribution of Fine Resolution Snow Surface Roughness
    Eric S. Thomas and Steven R. Fassnacht
ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  4:35 The Uncertainty of Snowmelt Basal Outflow using over 100 Snow Lysimeters
    Ryan W. Webb, Mark W. Williams, and Tyler A. Erickson
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado-Boulder
     
  4:55 A Long-Term Context for Snow Water Equivalent Trends in Rocky Mountain National Park
    Glenn G. Patterson and Steven R. Fassnacht
EASC-Watershed Science, Colorado State University
     
  5:10 Concluding Questionas and Remarks
    Discussion led by Melinda Laituri and Steven Fassnacht
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
   
March 22 5:30 pm Reception and Refreshments
Lory Student Center Theater
     
  6:15 pm Dr. Norm Evans Endowed Lecture Series and World Water Day Celebration 2017
   

2017 Distinguished Guest Speaker: Eleanor Allen, CEO Water For People

"Keeping Water Flowing for Generations to Come"

Lory Student Center Theater
     
     
March 22 6:00 pm Hydrology Days 2017 ends
     
   
    Compendium of I-WATER Symposium Presentations
   

Chair: Professor Jorge A Ramirez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU

I-WATER: Integrated Water Atmosphere Ecosystem Education and Research - IGERT Program at CSU
     
I-WATER   Modifying Bagnold’s bedload transport equation for use in watershed-scale channel incision models
    Roderick W. Lammers and Brian P. Bledsoe
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Hydroeconomic modeling framework for assessing vulnerability to water demands in arid regions
    André Dozier, Mazdak Arabi, Chris Goemans, Benjamin Wostoupal, Yao Zhang, and Keith Paustian
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Soil and waterborne amoeba can act as environmental reservoirs of pathogenic bacteria under certain precipitation regimes
    David Markman, Michael Antolin, Richard Bowen, William Wheat, Michael Woods, and Mary Jackson
Department of Biology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Climate effects on high elevation lakes: the influence of lake specific parameters
    Kyle Christianson, Brett Johnson and Douglas Silver
Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Do investments in wildfire risk reduction lead to positive financial returns? A return on investment analysis of a payment for ecosystem services program in Colorado
    Codie Wilson, Kelly W Jones, Jeffery B Cannon, Freddy A Saavedra, Stephanie K Kampf, Brett Wolk, Rob Addington, Antony S Cheng, Benjamin Gannon, Yu Wei, Lee MacDonald
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Incorporating Perceptions of Use and Risk in a Mixed-Methods Assessment of Change along the Urban/Rural Fringe of Cuzco, Peru: Applications for Sustainable Watershed Management
    Alicia Tyson
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Influence of experimental, environmental, and geographic factors on nutrient limitation patterns in freshwater streams
    Whitney S. Beck, Amanda T. Rugenski, and N. LeRoy Poff
Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
     
I-WATER   Uptake and Transformation of Nitrate in Agricultural Tailwater Wetlands, Weld County, Colorado
    Erick A Carlson
Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, GDPE, I-WATER
     
I-WATER   Location and Intensity of Changes to Ecosystem Services of Irrigated Agriculture: A case study in Weld County, Colorado
    Erick A Carlson
Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, GDPE, I-WATER
     
I-WATER   Post-fire precipitation thresholds and treatment efficacy from plot to watershed-scale
    Codie Wilson, Stephanie K Kampf and Joseph Wagenbrenner
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University